With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

As a MySQL developer, you should be at least dimly aware that MySQL supports several database formats. Find out what each is good for and how you use them.

MySQL is a popular open source database and one of the top relational databases-and with good reason. It is an extremely feature-rich and powerful database platform. With all its positives, however, ...

MySQL is still usually used in small to medium-sized deployments, although it now supports “big database” features such as master-slave deployments, use with Memcached, and horizontal sharding.

Until now, it has sold support services for a competing open-source database, PostgreSQL. MySQL is one of the most successful open-source companies founded in the past five years.

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table.

After the ransacking of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, and CouchDB servers, attackers are now hijacking hundreds of MySQL databases, deleting their content, and leaving a ransom note behind ...

A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole. On Monday, independent security ...